
Joan Blondell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 30, 1906
- Died
- December 25, 1979 (aged 73)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions. She was most active in films during the 1930s, and during this time she co-starred with Glenda Farrell in nine films, in which the duo portrayed gold-diggers. Blondell continued acting for the rest of her life, often in small character roles or supporting television roles. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Blue Veil (1951). Blondell was seen in featured roles in two films, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979), released shortly before her death from leukemia.
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Filmography

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Movie · as Self

Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Complicated Women
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie · as (archive footage)

The Woman Inside
Movie · as Aunt Coll

The Glove
Movie · as Mrs. Fitzgerald

The Champ
Movie · as Dolly Kenyon
$weepstake$
TV · as Mme. Grimaldi · 1 ep

The Rebels
TV · as Mrs. Brumple · 2 eps

Grease
Movie · as Vi

Battered
Movie · as Edna Thompson

Fantasy Island
TV · as Naomi Gittings · 1 ep

Opening Night
Movie · as Sarah Goode

The Baron
Movie · as Mama Lou

The Love Boat
TV · as Ramona Bevans · 1 ep

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Movie · as Landlady

Death at Love House
Movie · as Marcella Geffenhart

The Dead Don't Die
Movie · as Levenia

Winner Take All
Movie · as Beverly Craig

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Switch
TV · as Mrs. Lear · 1 ep

Starsky & Hutch
TV · as Mrs. Pruitt · 2 eps

Police Story
TV · 1 ep

The Snoop Sisters
TV · as Madame Mimi · 1 ep

The Rookies
TV · 1 ep

Banyon
TV · as Peggy Revere · 15 eps

Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie · as Jenny

The New Dick Van Dyke Show
TV · as Aunt Louise · 1 ep

The Phynx
Movie · as Ruby

McCloud
TV · 1 ep

Big Daddy
Movie

Medical Center
TV · as Doris · 1 ep

Love, American Style
TV · 2 eps

Stay Away, Joe
Movie · as Glenda Callahan

Kona Coast
Movie · as Kittibelle Lightfoot Clark

Here Come the Brides
TV · as Lottie Hatfield · 52 eps

The Name of the Game
TV · as Miss Wall · 1 ep

The Outsider
TV · as Sadie Burch · 1 ep

The Spy in the Green Hat
Movie · as Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto

Winchester '73
Movie · as Larouge

Waterhole #3
Movie · as Lavinia

The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV · as Miss Lottie · 1 ep

Ride Beyond Vengeance
Movie · as Mrs. Lavender

Family Affair
TV · 1 ep

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Madame · 1 ep

That Girl
TV · 1 ep
Summer Fun
TV · 1 ep

The Cincinnati Kid
Movie · as Lady Fingers

The Cincinnati Kid Plays According to Hoyle
Movie · as Self

Kilroy
Movie · as Rose Kelsey

Advance to the Rear
Movie · as Easy Jenny

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Mrs. Fingers Stilletto · 1 ep

Burke's Law
TV · as Ethel Kronkeit, Candy Sturdevant · 1 ep

Petticoat Junction
TV · as Florabelle Campbell · 1 ep
Vacation Playhouse
TV · as Miss Zilke · 1 ep
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV · as T.T. Hill · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · as Mrs. Melvin Freebie · 1 ep

The Virginian
TV · as Rosanna Dobie · 1 ep

The Lucy Show
TV · as Joan Brenner · 2 eps

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 2 eps

Angel Baby
Movie · as Mollie Hays

Dr. Kildare
TV · as Dolly Marlowe · 1 ep

The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

My Three Sons
TV · as Harriet Blanchard · 1 ep

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV · as Helene Terry · 1 ep

A Marriage of Strangers
Movie · as Mrs. Patrick

The Twilight Zone
TV · as Phyllis Britt · 1 ep

Adventures in Paradise
TV · as Millicent Brass · 1 ep

The Untouchables
TV · as Hannah 'Lucy' Wagnall · 1 ep

Bonanza
TV · as Lillian Manfred · 1 ep

Desk Set
Movie · as Peg Costello

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Movie · as Violet

This Could Be the Night
Movie · as Crystal St. Clair

Lizzie
Movie · as Aunt Morgan

Child of Trouble
Movie · as Helen Green

Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Real McCoys
TV · as Aunt Win · 3 eps

The Opposite Sex
Movie · as Edith Potter
Playwrights '56
TV · 1 ep

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Rose Kelsey · 1 ep

General Electric Theater
TV · as Joan Preston · 1 ep

The Blue Veil
Movie · as Annie Rawlins

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Calamity Jane · 1 ep

For Heaven's Sake
Movie · as Daphne Peters

The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Lux Video Theatre
TV · as May · 1 ep

What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Suspense
TV · as Clara · 1 ep

Studio One
TV · as Ruth Breen · 1 ep

The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Nightmare Alley
Movie · as Zeena Krumbein

Christmas Eve
Movie · as Ann Nelson

The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Movie · as Rosemary Durant

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Movie · as Aunt Sissy

Adventure
Movie · as Helen Melohn

Don Juan Quilligan
Movie · as Marjorie Mossrock

Cry 'Havoc'
Movie · as Grace

Lady for a Night
Movie · as Jenny Blake

Topper Returns
Movie · as Gail Richards

Three Girls About Town
Movie · as Hope Banner

Model Wife
Movie · as Joan Keating Chambers

Two Girls on Broadway
Movie · as Molly Mahoney

I Want a Divorce
Movie · as Geraldine Brokaw

East Side of Heaven
Movie · as Mary Wilson

The Kid from Kokomo
Movie · as Doris Harvey

Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie · as Jenny Swanson

The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie · as Maxine Carroll

Off the Record
Movie · as Jane Morgan

Breakdowns of 1939
Movie · as Self

There's Always a Woman
Movie · as Sally Reardon

The Perfect Specimen
Movie · as Mona Carter

Stand-In
Movie · as Lester Plum

The King and the Chorus Girl
Movie · as Miss Dorothy Ellis

Back in Circulation
Movie · as 'Timmy' Blake

Talent Scout
Movie · as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bullets or Ballots
Movie · as Lee Morgan

Gold Diggers of 1937
Movie · as Norma Perry

Colleen
Movie · as Minnie Hawkins

Three Men on a Horse
Movie · as Mabel

Sons o' Guns
Movie · as Yvonne

Stage Struck
Movie · as Peggy Revere

One And One Is One
Movie · as Herself

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
Movie

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
Movie

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"
Movie

Broadway Gondolier
Movie · as Alice Hughes

We're in the Money
Movie · as Ginger Stewart

Miss Pacific Fleet
Movie · as Gloria Fay

Traveling Saleslady
Movie · as Angela Twitchell

Things You Never See on the Screen
Movie · as Self
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
Movie

Dames
Movie · as Mabel Anderson

He Was Her Man
Movie · as Rose Lawrence

Smarty
Movie · as Vicki

Kansas City Princess
Movie · as Rosie Sturges

I've Got Your Number
Movie · as Marie Lawson

Hollywood Newsreel
Movie · as Self

And She Learned About Dames
Movie · as Herself

Blondie Johnson
Movie · as Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson

Gold Diggers of 1933
Movie · as Carol

Footlight Parade
Movie · as Nan

Just Around the Corner
Movie · as Mrs. Graham

Goodbye Again
Movie · as Anne Rogers

Havana Widows
Movie · as Mae Knight

Broadway Bad
Movie · as Tony Landers

Convention City
Movie · as Nancy Lorraine

The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Movie · as Schatzi Sutro

Three on a Match
Movie · as Mary Keaton

The Famous Ferguson Case
Movie · as Maizie Dickson

The Crowd Roars
Movie · as Anne Scott

Lawyer Man
Movie · as Olga Michaels

Union Depot
Movie · as Ruth Collins

Big City Blues
Movie · as Vida Fleet

Make Me a Star
Movie · as 'Flips' Montague

Central Park
Movie · as Dot

Miss Pinkerton
Movie · as Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton

Blonde Crazy
Movie · as Anne Roberts

The Public Enemy
Movie · as Mamie

Night Nurse
Movie · as Maloney

Illicit
Movie · as Helen 'Duckie' Childers

Big Business Girl
Movie · as Pearl

Millie
Movie · as Angie

The Reckless Hour
Movie · as Myrtle Nichols

My Past
Movie · as Marian Moore

Other Men's Women
Movie · as Marie

God's Gift to Women
Movie · as Fifi

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Movie · as Self - Gallery Member (uncredited)

The Office Wife
Movie · as Katharine Murdock

Sinners' Holiday
Movie · as Myrtle

Broadway's Like That
Movie · as Ruth's Pal

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Movie · as Self

The Voice of Hollywood
Movie
The Heart Breaker
Movie
The Devil's Parade
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